Fellow panelist Keith Boykin, a liberal commentator, fired back at her, noting how highlighting Asian immigrants in contrast to others reinforces a myth about them. “This is not good because it’s playing into the stereotype of the model minority,” Boykin said. The model minority myth keeps serious issues in the Asian-American community, which is majority immigrant, from being addressed and ignores the diversity of experiences within the group. And data averages hide the particular needs and histories of immigrants from different Asian countries. The model minority stereotype has consequences.

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2018 23:26 UTC